Word: leaguerer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...January to become U.S. High Commissioner in Germany, James Bryant Conant made quite a stir as the aggressive champion of the comprehensive public high school. "A dual system [of schools]," said he in a speech in Boston, "serves and helps to maintain group cleavages." Last week another topflight Ivy Leaguer took an uncompromising position on the other side of the question. As things are going now, said Princeton's President Harold Dodds at a Loomis School ban quet, a single school system would be a national calamity. One reason: because the public-school system is not doing a good...
...Modigliani, Bartok and yellow roses-as well as gowns by Valentina and Bergdorf Goodman hats.* She learned how to manage a vast (27-room), vaguely Georgian mansion. She learned about arcchitecture and decoration, collected antique silver. She acted in amateur theatricals, became a leader in social work, a Junior Leaguer, a patroness of the symphony...
Needing 75% of the 264 ballots (each listing ten players) cast by the baseball writers, Dean made the grade with 209, Simmons with 199. Just missing for the second year in a row (by seven votes): New York Giant First Baseman Bill Terry, the last National Leaguer to hit over .400 (lifetime average: .341), later a pennant-winning manager, who made no bones about his dislike for baseball writers. Eligible for the first time, and finishing eighth in the balloting (117 votes): New York Yankee Outfielder Joe DiMaggio...
Last week, in his fourth year as a major leaguer (and only his fifth in organized baseball), "Jumbo" Shantz was still beating everyone. He was the first pitcher in either league to win eleven games (one loss). Off and running at a faster clip than Grove's fabulous 1931 pace, blond, blue-eyed Bobby Shantz, 26, is getting the ultimate compliment from buzzing Philadelphia fans: "As good as Grove." On the early season record, he is better: in six of his victories he allowed only one run or less; his earned-run average is an impressive...
Besides his pinpoint control, sweeping curve and baffling knuckler, Shantz has a sneaky fast ball that draws "ohs" and "ahs" from the fans whenever he lets it go. Old (89) Connie Mack, who has seen them all, calls him "the greatest fielding pitcher I ever saw." As a major leaguer, Shantz has allowed only two bunts to become hits. Says Manager Jimmy Dykes: "Anyone who bunts against Shantz is nuts. Bobby comes off that mound like a cat at a mousehole. When he's pitching we have five infielders." Dykes's one "complaint" about his little lefthander...